Webpack 10.1 on 64-bit linux

Congrats to Xilinx on the recent release of ISE 10.1, and thanks for
simultaneously releasing WebPack along with ISE Foundation.

But... it appears the hoops necessary to get the 32-bit webpack
working under 64-bit linux (in this case, 64-bit ubuntu 7.10) have
changed... I wanted to share what I found so that others might have
similar success:

The real challenge is, once you've untarred the webpack tar, you need
to run

bin/lin/setup

Now, for me this just returned me to the command line, but running
strace bin/lin/setup

showed that it was searching for, and failing to find, a libuuid.so.
Now, ubuntu packages this lib (but not a 32-bit version of this lib)
so I had to download a 32-bit deb of libuuid (http://ubuntuforums.org/
showthread.php?t=203459 following these directions somewhat),
extract the archive with "ar x debname", untar the resulting data
file, find the libuuid.* files, and -then- copy them into the webpack
lib/lin directory. After this, the gui and everything else ran
smoothly (still waiting for the install to complete to make sure xst
and all that works).

(I understand that xilinx appears to be using the 64-bit capability to
price discriminate, but at the same time if you can afford the $$$
xilinx toolchain you can probably also afford a $800 32-bit computer
to run it on, whereas a lab like ours (with only 64-bit machines)
really relies on the free webpack).

Again, I hope this helps people in a similar situation to me. Now to
see if ISE 10.1 can help me shrink my design by the needed 2% to get
it to fit!
.

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